Prop 1: Prop 1 helps California veterans, struggling families and people with disabilities. It dedicates funding to help military veterans have a safe place to call home. It provides stable housing for struggling families, people experiencing homelessness and individuals with disabilities. It builds affordable homes for hardworking people like grocery clerks, nurse aides and teaching assistants. This helps people live in the communities where they work and serve, while still having money for basics like groceries and child care. Prop 1 tackles top priorities for Californians – building homes, creating jobs and boosting the economy. It’s expected to create 137,000 jobs and pump $23.4 billion into California’s economy.

Prop 2: A recent RAND study in Los Angeles County proves that supportive housing is an effective solution to our homelessness crisis – keeping Californians experiencing homelessness off the streets and out of emergency rooms, and receiving the mental health services they need, while easing the burden on emergency responders and saving taxpayers millions. Prop 2 Leverages existing state funds to build supportive housing connected to mental health services and addiction treatment for people living with a serious mental illness who are homeless or at great risk of becoming homeless. It provides intensive coordinated care through the housing program that includes mental health and addiction services, medical treatment, case managers, education and job training.

Prop 4: California’s 13 regional children’s hospitals provide specialized care to treat children and young adults up to age 21 who are suffering from serious and life-threatening diseases such as leukemia, sickle cell disease, cancer, and cystic fibrosis. The hospitals handle more than 2 million visits each year, regardless of a family’s income or ability to pay. The Children’s Hospital Bond of 2018 provides $1.5 billion over 15 years to support this critical, life-saving care.

Prop 5: Prop 5 takes upwards of $1 billion each year from schools and local services – from fire and emergency response to health care – in order to give new tax breaks to a select few Californians. People over 55 who can afford to buy bigger, more expensive houses get a new tax break. There are no limits to how many times a wealthy person can get a new tax break when they buy a bigger, more expensive house. Realtors, the only sponsors of Prop 5, make more money every time these expensive new houses are bought or sold. School children and communities are the ones who pay the price, with upwards of $1 billion cut from funding for schools and local services such as fire and emergency response and health care.

Prop 7: Changing our clocks twice a year has proven to be hazardous to our health and public safety. Proposition 7 is a required step in the process to stop the biannual time changes that harm health and safety of workers and their families. Biannual time changes are harmful to workers and families because research shows that vehicle accidents, workplace injuries and deadly medical emergencies increase in the day after the time changes. Changing between Standard Time and Daylight Saving Time is an out of date practice that adds no significant value to California.

Prop 8: Dialysis keeps patients alive when their kidneys fail by taking out the patient’s blood, cleaning it, and putting it back in their body. In California, 66,000 people depend on dialysis, and two big corporations dominate the dialysis industry. Despite nearly $4 billion in profits from their dialysis operations in the United States, the giant dialysis corporations don’t invest enough in improving patient care. Rather than spend their money on executives and investors, Prop 8 limits the corporations’ profits and encourages them to improve patient safety, staffing and conditions in the clinics.

Prop 10: Empowers local communities to limit skyrocketing rents Across California, people are struggling to stay in their homes, as developers, landlords and Wall Street speculators are given free reign over our cities, quickly transforming stable neighborhoods into high-priced markets at the expense of working-class communities. We need to repeal the Costa-Hawkins Rental Act, which puts limits on how California cities can address the housing crisis and protect residents from displacement. Housing justice organizations consider the Costa-Hawkins Act a key driver in the current housing affordability crisis, which is felt in every urban area in the state. Accordingly, almost all consider the repeal of the Costa-Hawkins Act the top statewide legislative goal.

Prop 11: California’s emergency providers are among the best-trained professionals in the nation. This initiative does not add significant levels of training beyond what is already being conducted. Prop 11 is a wolf in sheep’s clothing. While purporting to be about public safety, this initiative is simply about changing the labor code to protect one private company, American Medical Response, from civil litigation for alleged violations of California law. This measure is by, for, and about American Medical Response. If Prop 11 passes, it will rid AMR of its obligation to pay on millions of dollars’ worth of pending and future lawsuits for meal and rest break obligations to emergency responders.

Prop 12 - YES on Prop 12 is a coalition of more than 500 California veterinarians and veterinary clinics, California family farms and animal shelters, farmworker organizations, food safety groups, and animal protection charities. Prop 12 would require cage-free housing and improve space requirements in California for three types of animals who are typically confined in tiny cages on factory farms: baby veal calves, mother pigs, and egg-laying hens. It would also ensure that veal, pork, and eggs sold in the state come from operations meeting these modest standards.